Happy Birthday, John. Here's few things that happened the month you were born.
Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.
Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita scale, the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed, and the campus of Washburn University suffers catastrophic damage
Bob Dylan's album Blonde on Blonde is released in the U.S.
Vietnam War: U.S. planes begin bombing Hanoi and Haiphong
And here we are 55 years later!